Facing Off: Theorizing Over-Sharing and Under-Reading

Tara Brabazon 1 *
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1 Charles Sturt University, Australia
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Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 57-73. https://doi.org/10.29333/ojcmt/2495
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ABSTRACT

This article offers a distinct rendering of Facebook. The social media giant is framed by Harold Innis’s late masterwork, The Bias of Communication. Probing what happens with media for leisure transform into educational media, this article explores how the speed and muddled intimacy of Facebook provide distinct challenges for the development of information literacy and information management in higher education.

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Brabazon, T. (2015). Facing Off: Theorizing Over-Sharing and Under-Reading. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 5(1), 57-73. https://doi.org/10.29333/ojcmt/2495